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K2 3c

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Discovery status
  
Confirmed

Discovery date
  
2015

K2-3c

Discovery site
  
Kepler Space Observatory

K2-3c also known as EPIC 201367065 c is an exoplanet orbiting K2-3 a red dwarf, every 24 days 137 ly away. It has a density of 1.82g/cm3 indicating that it could be a Gas dwarf or a Mini-Neptune, it is one of the smallest gas planets ever discovered. Despite not being the smallest planet in the system by radius, by mass it is by far the least massive with a mass only double of that of Earth.

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K2-3c Wikipedia